ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,216, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Paging alert channel" was invented by Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Xiao Feng Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, a UE may receive, from a network node, an indication of a PAC, wherein the indication is associated with at least a subset of subgroup identifiers of a plurality of UEs associated with a same paging occasion, wherein each of the plurality of UEs is configured to receive the indication of the PAC associated with the same paging occasion. The UE may also communicate at least one message with the network node based on the indica...